Now this is a shot in the near dawn light, but by the time we have any sort of realistic use for chipsets smaller than the current gen 16nm chips we'll probably be working on levels of quantum computing.

GPU miners are dusting off their cards now and sticking em onto Ethereum.
Ethereum is getting pretty popular to the guy who knows how to get his miner's mining with ethereum's highly complex (sort of) idiot proof system.
Other than than Bitmain and Spondoolies are still advancing in miner development, at a rate many times faster than at their birth.

You've configured something wrong I think. Small block erupters don't usually fail unless settings tell them to do something that is not in their ability to do. The U1-U3 range though has so many stability problems it's quite impressive actually. I've figured out exactly how many times I must plug and unplug my U3 for it to work. (About 9)
The settings are These are MY settings. The 237.50 and 820 are variables.
The volt setting doesn't usually work unless you have a modified miner, changing voltage has to be done manually.
(Note: My miner gets quite hot, meaning don't leave yours on wood or anything without proper sufficient cooling!)
You can change frequency to what you want, just don't set it above 250 or expect fireworks.

 Why do you need a chip in the first place and why do you want a bitcrane chip? Sidehack's chips are much easier to remove and acquire..? I'm sure someone is selling a board or a broken miner with at least one working chip on ebay if you absolutely need a bitcrane chip.

As long as miners mine the blocks coming through, these blocks being filled with fees from said transactions then business will continue as usual. In 2140 the rewards will be so little that, even previous to that in pools, a new minimum of bitcoin will need to be invented. Less than a satoshi.

I wouldn't suggest starting mining BTC, the difficulty just rose to about 79.1G which is pretty damn high.
If you have $2000 dollars to spare, buy an S7 and it will ROI in about 3-6 months on average as of now. I don't suggest purchasing any miner under the S5. The S5 is the best $/Gh but the S7 is the most power efficient and fast.
I'd suggest start looking through altcoins. several GPUs (about $250 is what I paid) made more in Ether than my S3 as long as I've had them running. It's your choice what you mine though, Rubycoin, LGBTQoin, Monero or whatever tickles your pickle.
In the end it's your choice.
 

Coke ftw, been around longer, it might just be my hipsterness flaring up.

Not through a program like Tor, but I'm sure it's doable.
Also, as the guy above me said, port 8333 will probably already be forwarded, if it isn't do it yerrself.

I'd say that NXT has forked too many times and it's community is just too spread out nowadays, there is no sense of community.
I agree that there are a lot of shitcoins around nowadays, the new coins out are pretty much 90% pumper dumps.

What were you mining with?
Why do you only have 2 jumps? Are you not mining in the mean time?

I'd say Ether mining is the way.
Ethereum mining with a modern GPU is like owning 2x $60 Antminer U3s mining 24/7 without any horrible zombifying every two or so hours.  Though the wallet is a bitt iffy to set up, you don't really need it, personally I just deposit from my pool 100 Ether every day or so to Bittrex. (It works!) It's really your choice though.
EDIT: Just saw your mining post. Personally I just use the ethminer program outside of the command prompt, I don't think you'd trust a link but it's around the mining sector. It's a .exe and a .bat that you run like an instance of CGminer.

I wouldn't know why, they already have products on the market. The U3 is unstable but just fine for everyday use.
Really, who wants another small base miner? No big company willing to throw out thousands for them. The S7 is doing just fine on the market.
TL;DR No, they just sold out and no more probably will be made.

Well, addiction is a touchy subject.
For everyone, addiction is a variable. It can be serious or light, to each his own.
The 90% effective method is to reduce to number of cigarrettes per day, as someone already said above.
Moving from one smoke to an electrical version of that smoke, even if it lacks most of the harmful chemicals, is not any better for your habit.

Whoah, this thread has gotten big.
And we have a moron on the line. TCM, I suggest you follow me and take the liberty to ignore this "cryptofeminism" thickhead.
I'm thinking she needs a strong male admin to silence us since the nut can't defend their own "points" which are so unfounded that the cockhead has to ignore you instead of intelligently answering you.
Eat a fat one, cryptofeminism.

Well, it works.
This is on the Eth forum already, you just need 3 neuronal connections, eyes and a hand to type.
To be honest, I don't even use an Ethereum wallet, I mine to my pool and deposit to Bittrex without using the command prompt at all.
I mean, it works just fine and I own some Ether now.

Well, the start of the coin is the real thing, you have to make sure that 51% is owned by good people ASAP.
The later stages of the coin will be easier.

Are you still selling this? PM me please.

May I ask for what reason you want to CPU mine?
I'm sure you know it's obsolete but what exactly are you mining, I can see litecoin and bitcoin bfg-miner codes, but mining CPU on these coins is incredibly obsolete in the modern day.
Is it just to test your CPU?

Hey there, I'd like to take any AMD GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM.
I will pay *only* in BTC and I expect prices to be under $60.
Card must function properly as I will be mining with it.
Looking for ranges R7 2xx or 6xxx series of AMD cards.

-Griff

So after the great cock up of yesterday,
Cryptsy sending a "wallet maintenance" message, followed by a "all wallets are down currently" and ending with the Cryptsy site going down for a few hours. My question to everyone is: Is it safe to return to Cryptsy's markets or is it just too risky?
Also, does anyone actually know what is going on with Cryptsy's system and why it all went to shit for a few hours?